Upon hearing this, Xiao Shang didn't care that the seven-year itch was used to describe marital relationships. Instead, she nodded with deep understanding and started counting on her fingers.
“Counting from the age of three, it’s been nearly fourteen years, a full two seven-year periods.”
"Can you still remember the first time you met me? If you could travel back in time, is there anything you'd like to say to me?"
Thinking back to the first day of kindergarten, when she first met Chen Bing, Shang Yunmiao couldn't remember the details very clearly, but she could still recall the experience of crying very hard.
"Yes, yes, I remember. I cried so hard back then, and it was you, Chen Bing, who comforted me." After saying that, a sweet smile appeared on her face.
"No way, I wasn't trying to coax you back then. You were so timid, you didn't even dare to look me in the eye, how could I have had a chance to coax you?"
"Huh?!" Shang Yunmiao felt her hazy memories were being jolted. She thought about it carefully for a moment, then asked in confusion, "But I remember Chen Bing, you came to have dinner with me back then, and we even used the same pair of chopsticks."
"Silly girl, that happened the next day, didn't you? During dinner, you were sitting right next to me, but a girl named Zhang Yue chased you away, and that's when I went after you."
Shang Yunmiao remembered that incident, but she had no recollection of the girl's name or why she bullied her. However, it didn't matter whether she remembered or not, because Chen Bing did. His memory was the same as her own.
Moreover, Shang Yunmiao cleverly discovered a small blind spot in it.
"Hehe, Chen Bing, why did you go out to eat with me back then? Did you already like me then?"
Seeing Shang Yunmiao's smug expression, Chen Bing smiled with a mixture of indulgence and disdain.
"Back then, I just felt sorry for you because you were such a good girl and someone was bullying you. But you, little girl, were the one who liked me from that time on, right?"
"How could that be! I was too young and naive back then, how could I possibly like or dislike someone?"
After saying that, Chen Bing, who had expected this, immediately added, "Oh, you forgot? It was that time, the time I went to have dinner with you, that you happily told me after dinner, 'Chen Bing, I like you,' and then you even kissed me on the cheek."
The memory Chen Bing fabricated for Shang Yunmiao was so outrageous that even though Shang Yunmiao didn't remember it, she still firmly refuted it: "There's no such thing. Chen Bing, you're just making this up."
[While I might have said "Chen Bing, I like you" at three years old, kissing him on the cheek was absolutely out of the question.]
Tsk, I've been found out.
Although she failed to fool Xiao Shang, Chen Bing still had one more real trick up her sleeve. Although she was reluctant to reveal it, it was to curb Shang Yunmiao's arrogance…
"Then, have you forgotten..." Chen Bing's eyes were leisurely, looking very malicious.
Shang Yunmiao was a little nervous because she couldn't think of what Chen Bing would bring up.
"It was when I was in kindergarten, you... cough, once in a craft class, I lost my glue stick and asked you to borrow it, but you insisted that you wouldn't lend it to me unless I promised to marry you in the future."
That's true! And what Chen Bing didn't know was that she had stolen the glue stick herself!
Although this was very disadvantageous to him, Chen Bing was unaware that this was something he had deliberately stolen when he was a child.
So, Shang Yunmiao still stubbornly insisted that "children speak without thinking" and further retorted: "Chen Bing, you're the one who's being naughty. I clearly remember that when kindergarten first started, you took the initiative to tell the teacher that you wanted me to be your deskmate. You must have had bad intentions because you thought I was cute and well-behaved."
Xiao Shang has really learned bad habits from herself. How can she be so shameless as to praise herself for being cute and well-behaved when she was a child?
Even though it's true, you can't praise yourself like that, right? Otherwise, it's just too cute.
After being tempted for a moment, Chen Bing then produced new evidence.
"You have the nerve to say that? I only wanted to sit with you because you were quiet. But you little brat, you've been clinging to me ever since. You follow me everywhere like a little tail."
Her cheeks flushed red; she couldn't deny that she really was just like Chen Bing's little brother back then.
but……
"Chen Bing, you were the leader of the kids back then, everyone definitely wanted to play with you. On the contrary, why did you allow me to follow behind you alone? Wasn't it because you were precocious and had improper thoughts about me?"
I've made up my mind. If I could travel back to my childhood, I would definitely act like a big sister and tell little Chen Bing that he was the one who liked Shang Yunmiao first.
Hahaha, don't worry, with your current level of intelligence, you definitely can't beat me when I'm three years old.
It had been a long time since Chen Bing had debated with Xiao Shang like this, and she felt a rare sense of pleasure. Although it wouldn't hurt to continue arguing from kindergarten to elementary and middle school, in order to make Shang Yunmiao deeply realize that she was the one who fell in love with her first, and to curb her current arrogance, Chen Bing quietly uttered a few syllables.
"Stealing glue sticks..."
Shang Yunmiao, who had almost not realized what Chen Bing was saying, was slightly taken aback, and then her face immediately turned red. At the same time, the quick-witted girl realized that Chen Bing knew she had stolen the glue stick!
It was already an embarrassing dark history, and now that Chen Bing had subtly brought it up, Xiao Shang couldn't help but feel flustered and embarrassed.
She glanced around warily like a rabbit, then snuggled into Chen Bing's arms, covering his mouth with her hand while pleading, "Let's not talk about this anymore, okay? I'll kiss you when we get back tonight, okay?"
Shang Yunmiao's coquettish tactics were quite effective on Chen Bing. After hearing this, Lord Chen closed his eyes and nodded, which can be regarded as accepting this adjustment.
However, he had other requirements.
"Then let me ask you, who liked whom first?"
"Me! Me! Me! I fell in love with Brother Chen Bing first."
"Hmm, when did you start liking it?"
"First year of junior high school..."
"Hmm!?" Lord Chen opened his eyes wide, as if he were interrogating a criminal.
Upon seeing this, Xiao Shang quickly interjected, "From, from kindergarten... from the very beginning..."
Nodding in satisfaction, Chen Bing continued with one last question.
"I'm not very good at math, can you help me calculate how old children are in kindergarten?"
Knowing that Chen Bing was deliberately trying to make fun of her, Shang Yunmiao was furious but dared not speak out. Her cheeks turned red and red again, and finally she closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and made up her mind.
"I, I, I've liked you since I was three years old."
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